Mahalia played a sold-out gig in Gorilla on Wednesday – and what a show it was!

Like a kind of LGBT time-warping Howard’s End, The Pride shows how relationships, sex, self-worth and fate are intricately entwined with the society and period we live in.

At the start of a career-high breakthrough tour, it is natural for an artist to have butterflies in their stomach.

Tom Grennan had the sold-out Manchester Academy belting out hits from his debut album Lighting Matches in an electric gig on Friday.

Tom Walker brought his eclectic mix of rock, soul and pop to a sold out O2 Ritz in what was a huge hometown gig.

Based on the edge of the Northern Quarter, Ciaooo Pizzeria prides itself on serving traditional Neopolitan sourdough pizzas.

There is an inscription on the main staircase at the Royal Northern College of Music that reads: “Does originality actually exist or do we all simply build from what we have seen and heard?”

The National Theatre’s innovative adaptation of Macbeth successfully is reimagining a Shakespeare classic at The Lowry.

The Shack’s location is fantastic, settling in well among the other trendy bars, cafés and restaurants for which Burton Road is known.

Matilda, who travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village, finally opened in Manchester this week as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s award-winning adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1988 book came to the Palace Theatre.

The Return of the Soldier is compelling proof that, as the centennial anniversaries of the First World War draw to a close, there are still new stories and new perspectives of the Great War to be found.